I always have trouble choosing a new password (my indian name being "Paralyzed By Indecision"). This won't make things any easier.

Dictator or TV Sitcom Character?

When I first saw this, Benazir Bhutto was good for an easy win. Now, it seems to be obsessed with Debra Messing. Stump the automaton!

Waste brain cells when you're not killing them.

rant

Why don't more people get upset by stuff like this? When did we turn into Playboy Nation, where women serve at the pleasure of men who aren't even expected to have any sense of honor or responsibility towards them? Who said we would have to trade in respectful treatment to get equal rights and opportunities? We have our own type of fundamentalist oppression going on in the West, and it involves valuing women for their looks above all else, and making sure that they remember that they are as disposable as the pages of the Victoria's Secret catalog.
You haven't come a long way, baby, after all.

The greatest diet ever told

If, like many of us, you have resolved to lose weight in 2002, let the Lord help you.